How To Make Your Own Lip Balms

Dry season is upon us and it is time to be best friends with lip balms to avoid your lips getting chapped and sore and breaking from all the soreness. That would hurt.

Lip balm. Photo: Our Homemade Life

Contrary to what you may think, lip balms are super easy to make and you can customise them to suit your tastes, whether you like your lip balms sweet and flowery or minty and soothing.

The basics of making lip balms are quite simple: you need a fat (vegetable-based butter or oil) and a wax. All other ingredients like flavouring agents and essential oils are optional. But be wary of these ingredients when making or buying lip balms.

What you’ll need

Oils or butters

Wax (beeswax or carnauba wax)

Essential oil you love (optional)

A small pot and a large pot for melting and mixing

A whisk or spoon to stir

Glass droppers or a spoon

Pots or tubes for your lip balm of awesomeness

Lip balm. Photo: Organic Beauty Recipes

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This is basically a guide, but it should give you an idea of how to make lip balms. Then you can customise it to your taste, you soft-lipped bundle of sunshine. So here we go!